The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will not conduct a comprehensive environmental impact statement on a planned rail expansion through the La Crosse River marsh despite call from dozens of residents requesting the study.

Paid maternity leave continues to receive increased attention in Washington, D.C., after President Barack Obama called out the U.S. as being the only developed country without it in his State of the Union address.

“It’s not a nice-to-have -- it’s a must-have. It’s time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women’s issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us,” Obama said.

In her latest piece for Bloomberg Businessweek, reporter Claire Suddath writes that only 12 percent of American workers have access to...

Gov. Scott Walker's proposed budget includes a $3 million increase for the Department of Justice over the next two years, but the governor rejected requests to boost funding for drug treatment courts and the investigation of police-involved deaths.